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Brewer's: Bearded Women:
Bartel Grætjë, of Stuttgard, born 1562. The Duke of Saxony had the portrait taken of a poor Swiss woman, remarkable for her large bushy beard. In 1726 a female dancer appeared at Venice,…Brewer's: Pretender
The Old Pretender. James F. E. Stuart, son of James II. (1688-1766.) The Young Pretender. Charles Edward Stuart, son of the “Old Pretender.” (1720-1788.) God bless the king, I mean the…What exactly was the Soviet Union?
The former USSR and its constituent republics The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was an immense country that spanned from Europe all the way to the Pacific Ocean. It was one of the…Golden Horde, Empire of the
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Khanate of the Golden Horde (c.1300) Golden Horde, Empire of the, Mongol state comprising most of Russia, given as an appanage to Jenghiz Khan's oldest son, Juchi, and actually…mausoleum
(Encyclopedia) mausoleummausoleummôsəlēˈəm [key], a sepulchral structure or tomb, especially one of some size and architectural pretension, so called from the sepulcher of that name at Halicarnassus…moscovium
(Encyclopedia) moscoviummoscoviummŏskōˈvēəm [key], artificially produced radioactive chemical element; symbol Mc; at. no. 115; mass number of most stable isotope 288; m.p., b.p., sp. gr., and valence…Sigismund I
(Encyclopedia) Sigismund I, 1467–1548, king of Poland (1506–48), son of Casimir IV. Elected to succeed his brother, Alexander I, Sigismund faced the problem of consolidating his domestic power in…Tatars
(Encyclopedia) TatarsTatarstäˈtərz [key] or TartarsTatarstärˈtərz [key], Turkic-speaking peoples living primarily in Russia, Crimea, and Uzbekistan. They number about 10 million and are largely Sunni…Slavs
(Encyclopedia) SlavsSlavsslävz, slăvz [key], the largest ethnic and linguistic group of peoples in Europe belonging to the Indo-European linguistic family. It is estimated that the Slavs number over…Russian Revolution: The October Revolution
The October Revolution Revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky Related Links Russian Revolution: OriginsRussian Revolution: 1905 RevolutionRussian Revolution: February RevolutionWhy is the…Trending
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